He had earlier said that the empty seats in the first week of the Games - which were seen at a number of events, including tennis, football, gymnastics and swimming - had threatened to alienate Britons who had been unable to get hold of tickets.
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The sport is the sixth-most popular sport for boys by participants, behind football and track and field and ahead of tennis, swimming and golf.
The two men share a love of sports: swimming and football on Xi's side, basketball and golf on Obama's.
In addition to his football work, he is also chairman of British Swimming and interim chairman of the Rugby Football League.
Dr Jepson said the research showed that South Asian men were interested in playing football and attending the gym, while women liked walking and swimming.
Loh, late last year announced that eight varsity programs would be cut in order to produce a leaner athletic budget, a kindly way of saying that the school would rather save struggling football and basketball programs than keep varsity sports such as track and swimming, in which the vast majority of participants graduate.
These universities stockpiled the best athletes in football, basketball, track and field, swimming and wrestling and compiled long winning streaks.
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But it said many other sports, such as athletics, swimming, judo and football, "require discipline but do not pose the same threat of brain injury".
Teams from Bath and Bethlehem will play football, netball, basketball and table tennis and also take part in a swimming gala.
The majority of those medals will be given in sports that originated, in their modern form, in Britain: archery, athletics (track and field), boxing, badminton, field hockey, football (soccer), rowing, sailing, swimming, water polo, table tennis, and tennis.
It does seem to be true that Eunice felt a physical resonance with athletics, with events that challenged the body, an inheritance of decades of swimming and sailing at the Cape and of touch football on the back meadow at Timberlawn.
The plan for the Graves site includes a replacement swimming pool, additional tennis courts, gymnastics and outdoor football, an extended fitness facility and associated rehabilitation and research services.
Other sporting events to have been cancelled or postponed because of the earthquake include the national swimming championships, the Japanese round of the MotoGP championship and international friendly football games.
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